Women & National Trauma in Late Imperial

Zusammenfassung Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice! as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia! Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma.

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• Authors: Wai-Yee Li, Wai&, Wai-Yee Li
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780674492042
• ISBN: 978-0-674-49204-2
• No. of pages: 670
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries